Example sentences of "was not for he " in BNC.

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1 Almost immediately on arrival , surrounded by the cosmopolitan excitement of New York , its immense anonymity , the total lack of personal interest shown towards him after having been the centre of warmth and appreciation in Montreal , he knew that it was not for him .
2 Since George always did the arriving early and the saving of places , it was not for him to complain .
3 After a year 's postdoctoral research , including a short spell in Sweden on a British Council award , Worswick decided that a long term career at the bench was not for him .
4 The Commissioner pointed out that it was not for him to decide how statutes should be interpreted but he was satisfied that the complaints about odours from the factory had not been ignored .
5 The glamour and glitter of London that his wife clearly loved was not for him and at any opportunity , he would fly back by helicopter to Highgrove late at night .
6 Now 48 , Mr Ames realised at an early age that the nine to five routine was not for him .
7 Philip Ames realised at an early age that the nine to five routine was not for him .
8 He , too , felt that academic study was not for him .
9 Tuan Ti Fo smiled , knowing it was not for him to ask , nor for them to answer .
10 In the face of his father 's protestations he had decided that the conventional path for the scholarship winner — law or medicine — was not for him ; he was going to Oxford to do History .
11 A CHRISTMAS job in his university days convinced Mr John Ensoll that the Secret Service was not for him .
12 In nineteen seventy four , Reg spent some time at the National Circus School in Paris , where he learnt , amongst other things , that the life of a circus performer was not for him .
13 It was n't for him : he was no pansy ; he liked women , not boys with made-up eyes and sly insinuating glances .
14 It was comforting and easy , but it was n't for him .
15 ‘ I would n't be at Arsenal if it was n't for him .
16 If it was n't for him , I 'd have talked Dimitri round .
17 Only this time it was n't for him , but for Billie .
18 ‘ Look , if it was n't for him … ’
19 ‘ If it was n't for him we 'd still have the empire . ’
20 ‘ But the money was n't for him .
21 If it was n't for him it would have been in bits .
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